A 135 - class - sometime content was recently found beneath the floorboards of a house in Scotland . Although the note did not disclose the location of any rare gem , nor any word of wisdom from Sting , it did hold back a funny message from two ( definitely not drunk ) Victorians .
The whiskey bottle and note were recently reveal by Paul Allan , owner of the WF Wightman Plumbing caller , while carrying out some work at a house in the Morningside area of Edinburgh , as first account byBBC Scotland .
stunned by his hazard uncovering , Allan rushed downstairs to say the owner of the menage , Eilidh Stimpson . She decided to wait until her two kids returned home from school before crush launch the nursing bottle with a hammer to reveal the note itself .
“ We were urgently trying to get the government note out with tweezer and plyers , but it started to rip a little bit . We did n’t require to damage it further , so unfortunately had to smash the feeding bottle , " Stimpson , the mum - of - two doctor , toldEdinburgh Live .
They unraveled the rend piece of paper of paper that was cover in scrawled handwriting , which read : " James Ritchie and John Grieve laid this trading floor , but they did not drink the whisky . October 6th 1887 . ”
" Whoever see this feeding bottle may retrieve our dust is blow along the route . "
Allan suspect the notation was discovered under what would have been a maiden ’s room when the sign of the zodiac was first built , but little else is known about the identity of the note ’s source .
At 135 years old , this is an exceptionally old message in a bottle – perhaps the oldest ever find .
Prior to this discovery , the phonograph record bearer was a 132 - year - old bottleful found in Australia . In 2018,the bottle was foundby a family walking along the beach in West Australia . It turned out , the nursing bottle was a genuine Dutch snare bottle from the late 19th century . Inside they found a roll - up preeminence pen in German , explaining that it had been overlook off by a boat around 950 kilometers ( 590 miles ) from the glide in the Indian Ocean . Most unbelievable of all , the note was dated June 12 , 1886 .
If this late find in Scotland is authentic and date accurately , however , then it could slip the title for the world ’s oldest substance in a feeding bottle .
